We have two domains.   Its a carryover artifact from when we had
a 3466 with one DLT-7337 and we upgraded to two DLT robots.

Now with our 3494 both domains point to one copypool, tapepool, diskpool.
I merged everything during the conversion except the domains.

Don't remember it being much of a problem to get done.

... joe.f.

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Bill Robb wrote:

> Folks...
>
> ADSM 3.1 was implemented in my shop about 5 years ago (on a mainframe 
> server).  At the time, we had 5 Netware Clients, and about 7 AIX Clients, so 
> it made sense to create two domains - one for each platform.    As in most 
> shops, we've experienced an Open Systems growth explosion, to the point where 
> I now have approx 30 Netware clients, and 60 UNIX clients, still defined to 
> the original two domains.  My server is TSM 4.1, running on S/390.  My 
> storage pools for the two domains - from disk to copy pool to offsite tape 
> storage have all grown huge.   My feeling is that maintaining the entire 
> environment within two domains  is inefficient - backups, migrations, etc 
> take far too long, and I don't dream of turning on collocation.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Do most people run their servers with fewer, large domains, or is it 
> prevalent to operate with many smaller domains defined  with less client 
> nodes attached?
>
> 2) If a new domain is defined, how do you move a node, and all it's backed up 
> files, from one domain  to different new domain ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Robb
>